Fastening device for gloves, &amp;c.



Nu. 71!,594. Patented Oct. 2|, I902.

J. D. STIRCKLER. FASTENING DEVICE FOR GLOVES, 81.0.

-. gApplication filed Dec. 80, 1899. Renewed Jan. 13, 1902.;

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES "PATENT OFFICE.

. JOHN D. STIROKLER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE BEACON TRUST COMPANY, TRUSTEE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR GLOVES, 80o.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 711,594, dated October 21, 1902.

Application filed December 30, 1899. Renewed January 13, 1902. Serial No. 89,484. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN D. STIROKLER, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for Gloves, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stud-and-socket fastening devices such as are used for gloves and other articles; and it has for its object to provide a strong and durable socket member of a device of this character adapted to be securely attached to the part on which it is used.

The invention consists in the improvement which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a sectional view of my improved socket member. Fig. 2 represents a sectional view of the attaching device. Fig. 3 represents a sectional view showing the socket member and attaching device engaged with each other and with a piece of material. Fig. 4 represents a top plan view on a reduced scale.

The same characters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

My improved socket member includes an annular sheet-metal body portion a, which has a flat outer or raised marginal portion 2, formed to bear on a piece of material, and a depressed inner portion 3, bent inwardly from the portion 2. The said socket member also includes a double flange, composed of an outer part 4, which is bent outwardly from the depressed portion 3, and a tubular inner part 5, which is bent inwardly from the neck 6, uniting the two parts, the tubular inner part 5 being contracted at 7 to form the mouth of the socketwall. A slot 0 is cut in the inner part or socket-wall 5, making the same resilient, and said slot extends through the neck '6 and preferably through the outer part 4, the slot terminating within the margin ofthe body a, so that while the socket-wall is resilient the body is nonresilient and limits the resilience of the socketwall. The end of said slot, it is to be understood, may terminate at any point between the neck 6 and the edge of the flat portion 2 and still terminate within the margin of the annular body. If desired, more than one slot 0 may be provided. The outer part 4 is of the daring form shown,-its diameter being greatest at or near the neck 6, so that said outer part 4, neck 6, and inner part 5 form a setting-chamber8,havingacontracted mouth or entrance 9.

6 represents an attaching device composed of a tubular or eyelet-shaped body 10, adapted to enter the mouth 9 and to be spread Within. the chamber 8, as shown in Fig. 3, and a head 12. Said head has an opening 13 between its outer-and inner parts, which opening receives the end of the socket-wall 5 when the parts are connected, the socket-wall being slightly flared, as shown at 14, Fig. 1, so that when forced against the outer portion of the head 12 it will be spread into the opening 13. The two parts are thus doubly interlocked by'the spreading of the eyelet lO and of the socket-wall 5, so that the socket member is strongly and durably attached.

1. In a fastening device of the character specified, asocket member comprising an annular sheet-metal body having a raised marginal portion and a depressed inner portion oifset from the marginal portion, and a slot ted double flange composed of an outer part bent outwardly from the said depressed portionand an inner part bent inwardly from theouter portion of the outer part and constituting a resilient socket-wall, the two parts of the flange forming an annular settingchamber surrounding the socket-wall and adapted to engage and to spread an attachingeyelet, the socket-wall being contracted at too lar setting-chamber surrounding the socket- In testimony whereof I have afiixed my sigwall, and an attaching member comprising a nature in presence of two witnesses.

tu ular body or eyelet ada ted to surround the socket wall and to b spread in said JGHN STIRCKLER 5 chamber and a head attached to said eyelet Witnesses:

and formed to spread the inner end of the C. F. BROWN,

socket-wa1L E. BATOHELDER. 

